"Suicide" Comet Storm Hits Sun—Bigger Sun-Kisser Coming?

National Geographic News ^ | January 17, 2011 | Andrew Fazekas

[Red Badger]

The sun-kissing comet Ikeya-Seki, as it appeared in the dawn sky in 1965.

Photograph by Victor R. Boswell, Jr., National Geographic

Go to article for more links...........

[Vaquero]

Bigger Sun-Kisser Coming?

sometime around 12/21/2012??

[Red Badger]

You’ll have to ask George Lucas..............

[Seruzawa]

Seeing "25 comets in just ten days, that's unprecedented," Karl Battams, of the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., said in a statement. "It was crazy!"

Er, they've only had the scope up since 1995. You would need centuries or millenia or even mega-years of data before you could determine what is "unprecedented" or "crazy".

[gigster]

What ever happened to our FRiend who posted the “Astronomy Picture Of The Day”?

[Vaquero]

You’ll have to ask George Lucas..............

he's tied up

[Red Badger]

I think he may have gone off into the heavens.............

[Pontiac]

Yes and we get the same kind of “Unprecedented” statements about global warming and Holes in the Ozone layer.

All of these statements are a bunch of hog wash because the insignificant amount of data available.

But because a scientist says it the press picks it up and writes about it like it is profound. NO questioning permitted it is “the consensus of scientific truth”.

Your not a “denier” are you?

[Seruzawa]

Proud “denier” since forever.

[MrB]

Comets lose mass every time they pass the sun.
If the solar system is “billions” of years old,
why are there still comets?

There’s been no observation of any “comet factory” on the edge of the solar system.

[Roccus]

FReeper sig226 got disgusted with some of the stupidity and viciousness thrown around FR back in Sept. and said “Good-Bye.”

IMO, it was FR’s loss.

[Silentgypsy]

Ping

[VanShuyten]

There's no “comet factory,” but there is a “comet bank” called the Kuiper belt out beyond the gas giants.

[Cheburashka]

What ever happened to our FRiend who posted the “Astronomy Picture Of The Day”?

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Don't know. But you can go right to the source here.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[Cheburashka]

There’s been no observation of any “comet factory” on the edge of the solar system.

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http://nineplanets.org/kboc.html

[MrB]

Kuiper belt and “Oort” cloud are hypothetical “rescuing devices” for the problem.
A few hundred KBO’s have been actually been observed,
but in order to be the source of short period comets,
there would have to be billions of observable ice balls out there.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

“There’s been no observation of any “comet factory” on the edge of the solar system.”

http://www.universetoday.com/32522/oort-cloud/

[MrB]

Again, a proposed, hypothetical rescuing device.
Basically, this thing HAS to exist (though we haven’t observed it) in order to account for the problem of short period comets and billions of years.

[The Comedian]

Snowball's-chance ping.

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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Quix]

SOUNDS LIKE more

“SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS”

of the END TIMES

to me.

Didn’t happen the first 50 years of my life anything like they have the last 10 years.